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ArcSight Introduces Log Manager with IT Operations and Security Capabilities
Security information and event management company ArcSight introduced a new log management product this week that it claims will help resellers and other channel partners better sell to both information security and IT operations stakeholders within client companies. The new ArcSight Logger 4 is designed to collect, search and analyze both unstructured and structured data…
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Physical Security: Beyond Guns, Guards and Gates
The warehouses of broad-line IT distributor Ingram Micro will soon stock fire control systems, automated door locks and products along since servers, switches and storage arrays that make up the core of its portfolio. Ingram Micro announced yesterday that it will now stock physical security technologies, providing solution providers with the products and support to…
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DLP Shortcomings Equals Security Services Opportunities
Just how good is contemporary data loss prevention (DLP) technology? Can it do more than identify and stop the release of Social Security and credit card numbers? On Friday, I wrote about how DLP “probably” couldn’t have prevented the security breach that resulted in the authorized disclosure of more than two dozen Congressional lawmakers under…
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NetWitness Updates NextGen IT Forensics Platform for Enterprise
The IT forensics gurus at NetWitness Nov. 4 announced a refresh for the company’s NextGen enterprise network forensics and advanced threat intelligence platform, which they say will improve its marketability in the enterprise market and could make it easier for channel partners to compete with a more complete security offering. "What we’ve done with Version…
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Symantec vs. McAfee: A Rivalry Renewed
When solution providers and enterprise customers arrived in Las Vegas last month for the McAfee Focus conference, they were greeted at McCarron Airport by a sea of yellow signs—from the gate to the door—extolling the superiority of Symantec products. It was a marketing coup that didn’t sit well with the McAfee execs, who didn’t appreciate…
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Midsized Companies Lose Average of $43K Per Year From Security Incidents
Last year midsized companies spent a total of $17.2 billion fixing IT security incidents according to new research out this week from McAfee. McAfee recently had MSI International surveyed 900 companies with between 51 and 1,000 employees to find that in the past year a single midsized organization lost $43,000 on average due to security…